Many users after upgrading to Windows 10 or after upgrading their Office 365 license are getting errors like 0x80070005 or an “Unlicensed Product” notification. The main reason for these are, either you don’t have latest version of Microsoft Office installed or the license of your Office has expired or isn’t current. So, in case if you had your subscription license ended of Office 365, you need to renew that whether it was of Office 365 Home or Office 365 Business. Or it can also occurs if you switched to business license of Office 365, yet didn’t upgraded or changed the version of Office.

So, in order to fix Error Code 0x80070005 or “Unlicensed Product” Notification, you need to follow following steps carefully:

Solution 1

Exit all programs running of Microsoft Office.

Choose appropriate step vaild for your operating system.

For Windows 10 users, open Start Menu and type the name of any application like word 2013, excel 2013 etc. and when the appropriate result appears, right click on it and “Run as Administrator“.

If you have Microsoft Office 2010 installed, then replace 2013 with 2010.

For Windows 8 users, Open Start Menu, type the name of any Microsoft office application like Word 2013, Excel 2013, choose appropriate result and right click on it and “Run as Administrator“.

For Windows 7 users, open “Program and Files” folder in the drive where the program is installed and then search for Word 2013, Excel 2013, right click on appropriate result and click “Run as Administrator“.

Follow the Activation instructions which the application shows.

Solution 2

Update your Microsoft Office 365 to Latest Version.

Open any Microsoft Application like Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Now, click on File > Account > Product Information

Then click “Update Options” and then “Update Now“.

Let the update process completes. You won’t be able to use any product of “Microsoft Office” till the update process finishes.

And if you don’t see the Update Now active, then click Enable Updates first which shall turn ON automatic updates. Then you can choose again, Update Options > Update Now.

Solution 3

If updating Microsoft Office to latest version didn’t helped, then you need to uninstall your product key (not complete Microsoft Office) and then sign-in again with email which has the license associated to activate office. But to uninstall product key, here’s what you need to do:

Download this fix. This fix is provided by Microsoft officially, hence it’s safe to run it. It’s compatible with all versions of Windows i.e. 7, 8 and 10.

Run the fix and let it complete it’s process.

When it’s done, open any Microsoft Office application like Word or Excel.

Since your product key is uninstalled now, you’ll be asked for entering email ID and password which is associated with license key of Office.

If you’re an Office 365 Business User

Locate “Account Info” which shall be available somewhere at right side of the profile page and then choose “Assigned Licenses“.

If you can’t find “The latest desktop version of Office” in the licenses list, that means your account don’t have the license or the license has expired. Then get a Office 365 license by asking your Office 365 Administrator.

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